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Re: Silverlight LinkLabel control

AndrzejAndrzejewski — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:18:06 GMT

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I also want t invite you tomy blog about Windows 7 phone

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Jacky — Sun, 29 May 2011 19:57:23 GMT

Grat article! I also sometimes write about silver light and windows phone, if you want just follow my site:)

Greetings.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

CrisRowlands — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:15:01 GMT

Thanks for the surprisingly quick response :)
That sounds great, but sadly I don't actually know how to rebuild the project for wp7.

I'm just about managing to get by with the little coding knowledge I have & binging everything I don't know :P

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

emil — Mon, 16 May 2011 11:43:09 GMT

Hi Cris,

Yes, it is possible to such this control on WP7 too. I think you will only have to build the project for WP7 and it should work. If not - the source code is available on CodePlex so you can make the required changes. If you want to contribute to the project - let me know.

Emil

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

CrisRowlands — Mon, 16 May 2011 11:35:56 GMT

Hiya, Im just wondering if something like this could be altered or created to work with silverlight for WindowsPhone?

Im currently working on updating the 1800PocketPC.com app, making my own html parser which converts articles into a more 'mobile friendly' view. Having something like this that worked in wp7 apps would be a godsend.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

lnikolov — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:12:24 GMT

The article has been updated to the latest version of Silverlight and Visual Studio.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Jake — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:10:42 GMT

Thanks for the sample. I was looking for a complete example for DependencyProperty and this was really nice! Modified it to run without a browser and upgraded the code for SL4. Thanks!!

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Robert — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:45:05 GMT

How about Silverlight 4?

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

biper4x4 — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 20:14:08 GMT

Best post ever about URL in text on Silverlight. Probably I will use it on my page Clever Notes

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Zain Shaikh — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:49:38 GMT

can any one please tell me why does it not create the hyperlink of middle link when i pass this string to LinkLabel Control?

note: the middle link's text and action is changed, if i keep all the links with same text and action, it works, but when i change the text or action of middle link, it does not convert it to hyperlink.

[link="google"]google[/link] [link="googlez"]googlez[/link] [link="google"]google[/link]

any help please???

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Zsolt Hever — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:03:39 GMT

SilverLight 3 update

The WrapPanel makes the problem.
To solve the problem:

LinkLabel class library:
Remove reference for Microsoft.Windows.Controls
and add reference to System.Windows.Controls.Toolkit instead.

LinkLabel.cs
Remove using Microsoft.Windows.Controls;

Themes/generic.xaml
Add
xmlns:controls="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Toolkit"
instead of
xmlns:controls="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Windows.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Windows.Controls"

Compile and use the new LinkLabel.dll in Silverlight 3

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Ben Hurtisson — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:34:45 GMT

Greatest instructions for usage of SilverLight.

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RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

emil — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:47:56 GMT

WarNov, I'll take a look at it today. I guess you are talking about Silverlight 3, right?

I'll see whether there are some compatibility issues and fix them.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

WarNov — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:20:09 GMT

Is there any Silverlight Updated Version?

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

warnov — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:01:28 GMT

Well. Now Im not agry anymore, so Im going to describe well my situation:

I've first downloaded the sample+dll. The compiled xap, worked perfectly.
Downloaded sources, but when compiling LinkLabel, had 2 errors:
1. Wrap not found
2. Windows.Controls not found
  1. Then read the annotations and:
Installed last version of Codeplex Silverlight Toolkit
Referencied System.Windows.Controls.Toolkit
Deleted the un-working reference
Rebuild, run and: An unhandled exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' occurred in Unknown ModuleCreated a fresh new project
Added the just Buil LinkLabel.dll
Build, run and: InvalidOperationException
Replaced my built LinkLabel.dll with the one available in codeplex:
Build and: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Windows.Controls, Version=2.0.21027.1502, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Please somebody help me. I've spent a complete day trying to make this work. I would like to have the eaxct project source for the xap download tab in codeplex, because when running that web project it worked very fine. Any other advice will be very welcome. Thanks a lot.

warnov@gmail.com. http://warnov.com/

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

WarNov — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:39:08 GMT

Does somebody have a complete working example? I couldn't get codeplex sources work fine. I don't know why they don't just publish a single rar with everythig working :S. The "last" sources throwme out of memory exception

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

WarNov — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:03:45 GMT

Hi. I hace Slverlight 2 Relases in my browser. But when I Compiled the sample project, the resulting page suggests me to download silverlight. Why is that? Is this for SL 3?

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

emil — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:13:22 GMT

Hi Angelo,

you can use LinkStyle property to define the font style like this:

                    <Style x:Key="MyLinkStyle"         
                    TargetType="HyperlinkButton">         
                    <Setter Property="FontFamily"         
                            Value="Arial" />         
                    <Setter Property="FontSize"         
                            Value="14" />         
            Style>         

Hope that helps.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Angelo Santos — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:29:25 GMT

Please how can i change font style in Links ...? thank you again

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Angelo Santos — Fri, 22 May 2009 06:29:06 GMT

Can anyone tell me how can i change the Styles ? (links and text) ...thank you

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

emil — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:21:53 GMT

This version is the one that is uploaded on CodePlex. http://silverlightlinklabel.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=23383

Get the Sample Project (http://silverlightlinklabel.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=23383#DownloadId=58875)

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Angelo Santos — Thu, 21 May 2009 08:53:20 GMT

can anyone please put the version that is on this page please on line (http://www.silverlightshow.net/showcase/LinkLabelTest.xap)... thats the only one that work with me :(
could it be something from the debuger ? im trying through the debuger :(

thanks

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Angelo Santos — Thu, 21 May 2009 06:36:17 GMT

no way :( ... javascript Error... and on aspx nothing happens and sometimes out of memory errors ...
what i did was change to put this project working (11245)

private WrapPanel layoutRoot;
to
private

WrapPanel.WrapPanel layoutRoot;

Deleted microsoft.windows.controls

and put the System.Web.Silverlight.dll file in bin folder of the LinkLabelWeb Project and it compiled that way

but when i run the test projects javascript error on LinkLabelTest and out of memory erros on the LinkLabelTestTestPage.aspx project

here are my SL versions

Visual Studio 2008 SP1
Silverlight plug in - 2.0.40115.0
Silverlight 2 SDK - 2.0.31005.0
Silverlight 2 SDK Toolkit March 2009- 2.0.30318.1329
Silverlight Tools for visual studio 2008 SP1 - ENU - 9.0.30729.146

thank you for your patience :)

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

emil — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:48:23 GMT

Did you download the latest source code from CodePlex? http://silverlightlinklabel.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/11245

I just did and it compiles without any problems. Be sure to use Silverlight 2. It is not tested on SL3.

Also if you are using the latest release of the Silverlight Toolkit then you must change the Microsoft.Windows.Controls reference to System.Windows.Controls.Toolkit in the LinkLabel project.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Angelo Santos — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:58:32 GMT

Putting the LinkCollection method in my Project after adding all the necessary references.Is there something else that i must do after putting the imports and putting the references to both dlls :( ?

and also the "LinkLabel project " gives an error at compile time

Error 2 'CompletIT.Windows.LinkClickEventArgs' does not contain a definition for 'Source' and no extension method 'Source' accepting a first argument of type 'CompletIT.Windows.LinkClickEventArgs' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) D:\Documents and Settings\angelo.santos\Desktop\LinkLabel\LinkLabel\LinkLabel.cs 231 22 LinkLabel

thank you for your response :)

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

emil — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:38:33 GMT

Hi Angelo,

What are you trying to do? How do you get this error?

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Angelo Santos — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:05:37 GMT

Error 1 'CompletIT.Windows.Controls.LinkLabelElements.LinkCollection' is inaccessible due to its protection level anyone can help !? :( thank you

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Rajan — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:38:18 GMT

I'm having one more problem when use Expression Blend 3 preview.

Seleced Link Label control and added to my page. After adding the control getting error "the element could not be displayed because of a problem with completIT.windows.controls.linklabel"

Please help me to solve this problem.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

rollo — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:48:15 GMT

I have been unable to get this to work... Has anyone else run into problems? I have tried added the .dll as a resource to blend 2. When I use the control it throws an error.

While trying to build the LinkLabel in VS2008 I get errors about WrapPanel?!?! Saying it is a namespace but is used like a type...

I am new to silverlight and my coding skills are rusty so need a little extra hand holding here.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

emil — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:09:02 GMT

Hi Brian,

Just replied to your issue in CodePlex.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Brian Norman — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:03:34 GMT

codeplex is down so thought Id discuss and issue here. If you have a single line of text, with no links in, that is longer than the control the linklabel is a child of the text will not wrap.

From looking at the source this is becuase if a single (with no links) string of text is displayed you just create a single textblock and add this to the wrap panel. Unfortunately this means it does not wrap for long lines of text.

I have done a quick bodge in my code that splits the text into words and adds each as a textblock in the same way you do when there are links in the text but it needs some refactoring to not be a bodge.

For uses like the I have, where I do not know if the text has links in or not until its displayed this is a critical issue.

Thanks for the great control and I hope this fix will help others wondering why it doesnt work

Brian @ Earthware.co.uk

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Scott Barnes — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:28:52 GMT

I just noticed that if you have a URL like this:

http://www.silverlight.net/myshow/ as your hyperlink. the /myshow/ causes LinkLabel to throw an index zero error under the for loop for Link in links.

---

Scott Barnes
Rich Platforms Product Manager
Microsoft.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Garf — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:32:51 GMT

How can I make the Hyperlink wrap?

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

emil — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:52:01 GMT

Matt,

there is a hyperlink control, but it only displays hyperlinks. In the LinkLabel control you can have both text and hyperlinks. Get your comment for example - it contains both text and a link to your company. Without a LinkLabel control you can't display your comment in a Silverlight application. That's the main purpose of this control.

Hope this helps.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Matt — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:04:42 GMT

Isn't there already a Hyperlink control???

Matt
VinSolutions Automotive Software

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Rodrigo — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:40:10 GMT

thanks guys =]

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

emil — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:06:32 GMT

Rodrigo,

the control has been migrated to Silverlight 2 RTW. Just download the latest binaries from http://www.codeplex.com/SilverlightLinkLabel/SourceControl/ListDownloadableCommits.aspx and you are good to go ;)

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Rodrigo — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:50:06 GMT

sorry for the duplicated post... :P

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Rodrigo — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:49:01 GMT

Hey guys.

i'm trying to migrate my website from Beta 2 to RTW.

I tried to use the link label, and didn't work. There is a problem in this part of the code on LinkLabel.cs

private void ClickLink( object sender, RoutedEventArgs e )
        {
            LinkClickEventHandler click = this.LinkClick;
            if ( click != null )
            {
                LinkClickEventArgs args = new LinkClickEventArgs( ( sender as HyperlinkButton ).NavigateUri );
                args.Source = this;

                click( this, args );
            }
        }

"args. Source" doesn't exist in the new version of Silverlight.

I'm trying to fix, but it's a little complicated...

If someone can help it would be great.

thanks

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Harlequin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:18:52 GMT

ChaosKiller: Yeah. When you're making the click event for links in here you can put in calls to JavaScript perhaps, then your JavaScript on the page can do AJAX stuff, if that's the kind of thing you're looking for.

Emil: Thanks. will need to check out RC0 I guess and see if we can put Content into a control like we want to. Nice to be able to do that instead of being stuck in the attribute.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

ChaosKiller — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:51:34 GMT

Is it possible to have an Silverlight hyperlink change the page currently displayed in an ASP.NET (.aspx) content place holder? Or can this be done using iFrames? Basically I have a Silverlight menu, and the links displayed here need to change just the content in the content place holder, instead or loading the whole web page. Hope that makes sense. Thanks

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

emil — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:34:43 GMT

Instead of " use "

This is the way you can write qutoes(") in the XAML.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Harlequin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:52:39 GMT

Sure I'll sign up there....once they fix the registration :)

Yeah, the "AddLinks for no Uris" was kind of a workaround for the wrappanel textwrapping problem since the measuring stuff in the wrappanel project isn't working right. I noticed with a long block of text with no links it would canculate the height as being 42 pixels and the width as 5500 pixels, so the wrapping was never taking place. But when I ripped apart and sent in a bunch of TextBlocks it could do it properly.

*Geez*, new it was a bug when it wasn't working at all any way I tried it. They need a Silverlight bug list. Wasting too much precious time getting things to work when it's all "fixed in RTM". *Arrg*

When it's in CodePlex we'll need to change the RegEx so we can use single quotes in that [link] tag as well as double quotes. Otherwise you'll never be able to make text with links in the Xaml itself, only in the C# which really won't do.......until the RTM comes out of course :)

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

emil — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:33:34 GMT

Harlequin, I've bumped my head with the ContentProperty attribute yesterday, but it turns out that in the current version of Silverlight this attribute doesn't work. I've talked with other people in the Silverlight community and they reported the same. I checked how this is done in the TextBlock control and saw the there is an internal attribute ContentProperty which is a bit different from the public one. So we have to wait and see if this will be fixed in the next release.

BUT, there are some good news also ;) I've just published the control on CodePlex - http://www.codeplex.com/SilverlightLinkLabel with your changes for the target attribute. I didn't applied your change for the "AddLinks for no Uris" because I don't see a good point in it, but, of course, we can discuss that also.

If you are willing to add new features or just some changes I can add you as a contributor in the CodePlex project. For this purpose I need your username.

Thanks again ;)

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Harlequin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:12:17 GMT

Oh yeah, I'll be using this thing on an internal Silverlight thingy for Microsoft today(starting 3 week Silverlight project), so it's another Silverlight project being dogfooded by Microsoft :)

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Harlequin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:09:32 GMT

Good to hear about the ContentProperty, couldn't get that bloody thing to work :)

++ on the CodePlex. Will be a lot easier for this thing to grow on CodePlex than in a blog entry with a flat comment listing.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

emil — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:58:29 GMT

Wow, Harlequin, thank you for the feedback!

I'm glad you are so active here!

Because of you, I considered to take this control into CodePlex. Now, I'm adding what I promised (the ContentProperty attribute) and I'll publish the latest source code on CodePlex.

I like the changes you made about the target attribute. It was in my schedule also, but you did it already and that's great.

My proposal for you is to contribute your changes in CodePlex. I'll publish the project today or tomorrow early in the morning (GMT +2) so then you can make your changes if you like the idea. Let me first publish the project and I'll share the link.

What do you think?

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Harlequin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:53:12 GMT

Just changed the uriCollection.Add this this, so the default is "_self". Make the default whatever you'd want of course:
uriCollection.Add(new Link(uri.Value, currentUri)
{
Text = uri.Groups[LinkPatternTextGroupName].Value,
TargetName = (uri.Groups[LinkPatternTargetGroupName].Value == String.Empty ? "_self" : uri.Groups[LinkPatternTargetGroupName].Value)
});

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Harlequin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:43:04 GMT

Here's how you add functionality for a target="" attribute on the [link] element. All changes are in LinkLabel.cs. I'll assume you'll know where all the objects go, since they're named like the Uri and Text ones.

New LinkPattern:
public const string DefaultLinkPattern = "\\[link=\"(?(.|\n)*?)\"\\s*(target=\"(?(.|\n)*?)\")?](?(.|\n)*?)\\[\\/link\\]";

New constant string:
public const string DefaultLinkPatternTargetGroupName = "target";

New private string:
private string linkPatternTargetGroupName;

New GroupName, this can go under the "public string LinkPatternTextGroupName" item:
///

/// Gets or sets the GroupName of the target in the RegularExpression.Match
///

public string LinkPatternTargetGroupName
{
get
{
    if (this.LinkPattern.Equals(DefaultLinkPattern, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
    {
      return DefaultLinkPatternTargetGroupName;
    }

return this.linkPatternTargetGroupName;
}
set
{
this.linkPatternTargetGroupName = value;
}
}

In the GetLinkMatches() function inside the foreach(), here is a new uriCollection.Add:
uriCollection.Add(new Link(uri.Value, currentUri)
{
Text = uri.Groups[LinkPatternTextGroupName].Value,
TargetName = uri.Groups[LinkPatternTargetGroupName].Value
});

That's it, now this should work for ya:
[link="http://www.cnn.com" target="_blank"]CNN[/link]

Only thing I think that is missing is if there is no target="", then I'm not quite sure what the TargetName is set to in the uriCollection.Add, might need a default or something.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Harlequin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:20:33 GMT

And for the wrapping problem, where there are no links, getting more intimate with the code I found that if there are no links it makes 1 big TextBlock in the AddLinks() function, and when there are links, it pretty much chops up the entire thing to make TextBlocks and HyperlinkButtons. So, in the code below I made it so if it's text only, it chops it all up word by word and adds a TextBlock.. Helps the WrapPanel calculate things better. Might be a bit inefficient on bigger pages, would have to try it out. Of course a better way would be to find out it's allowed width, and set the one big TextBlock to that width, instead of chopping it up like I did.

My code in the AddLinks for no Uris.

// no uris found
if (links == null || links.Count == 0)
{
string[] allwords = linkLabelText.Split(delimiter, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
foreach (string word in allwords)
{
    this.layoutRoot.Children.Add(new TextBlock()
    {
      Text = word + " ",
      Style = this.TextStyle
    });
}
}

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Harlequin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:05:34 GMT

Thanks for the response.

Is there a way the to be able to use single quotes in the special [link ""][/link] element then, since we need to use the attribute, we can't be using double quotes. I don't care much about the scrollviewer not working right now, since the next projects for Microsoft I'll be working on won't need scrolling since all blocks of text will have a predetermined height/width, so I should be okay.

Not sure why ContentProperty or the other stuff doesn't work, I tried everything myself, but using Silverlight you start to get a 6th sense that something you're trying to fix is actually a Beta 2 bug. Which I think this is.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

emil — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:21:43 GMT

Hi Harlequin,

About this:

test

As answered in the Silverlight.net Forums a ContentProperty attribute is required for this to work.

About

test

I really don't know why it doesn't work. I've tried it myself and couldn't get it working also. Just as you I thought setting the attribute like and setting it like ... is the same. Well, seems it isn't or we are both missing something.

It is easier to set the text property directly between opening and closing the LinkLabel tag. It is a good idea and I'll implement that in the control so everyone can use it that way. On Monday I'll publish a new version with this feature.

The WrapPanel used in this control is a free control posted on CodeProject - check out the article here. There is also an open thread where other users using this control are experiencing the same issue - http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/WrapPanelSilverlight.aspx?msg=2483575#xx2483575xx.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Harlequin — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:54:13 GMT

Also, has anyone tried grabbing the WrapPanel.cs from the link above? I use it, and even with the override tweaks, my Scrollviewer doesn't scroll. Almost like the WrapPanel isn't telling the Scrollviewer how much height it needs.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Harlequin — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:48:26 GMT

http://silverlight.net/forums/t/27546.aspx

I started a thread on the Silverlight forums to see if we can get content right into the Xaml itself. Text="test" works as an attribute for some reason, but can't get it to work like this:

test

Even better of course would be able to do this, but damned if I can't get that working :)

test

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Rodrigo — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:54:59 GMT

Thanks!!!

You guys saved my life =]

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

iiordanov — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:43:34 GMT

Hi Rodrigo,

Yes, you are absolutely free to use the LinkLabel control in any projects you would like!
It is completely free and it is made for the community.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Rodrigo — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:23:35 GMT

Hi,

i was wondering if i can use your code to finish my web page >> www.centrodeinovacao.org.br <<

your solution solve all my problems.

Can i use it?

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

iiordanov — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:21:12 GMT

Hi Harlequin,

Thank you very much for your comments!
We are going to update the source code of the link label control with the great improvements you suggested!

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Harlequin — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:21:04 GMT

Working nice so far. Only thing I'd like to iron out is to be able to use the text in the Xaml itself. Doesn't seem to take it for some reason.

Here's some text in the xaml. <-- Doesn't work

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Harlequin — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:05:46 GMT

As for James and the TextWrapping I see in the AddLinks function there is a function when there are no links, I just added Wrap in there by hand, but you might wanna make it I guess so the user can choose to wrap or nowrap as a property.

// no uris found
if (links == null || links.Count == 0)
{
this.layoutRoot.Children.Add(new TextBlock()
{
    Text = this.Text,
    Style = this.TextStyle,
    TextWrapping = TextWrapping.Wrap    <-- I added this, and wrapping worked when no links.
});
return;
}

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Harlequin — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:19:07 GMT

Specific problem...I didn't add the generic.xaml to my Core project (where I keep the C# files)...thus there was no template to run. =)

Just one more thing not working now, I should have it fixed soon then I should be good to go.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

emil — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:16:26 GMT

Harlequin,

Are you sure you enabled debugging for Silverlight?

I set a breakpoint in the OnApplyTemplate() method and stepping into the code the sequnce is:

this.RootVisual = new Page();
- Page constructor
-- InitializeComponent();
-- ...
and after that OnApplyTemplate()

Do you experience any specific problem?

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Harlequin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:58:51 GMT

When does the LinkLabels OnApplyTemplate() get hit? I put a breakpoint in my OnApplyTemplate() and it never gets in there, thus the WrapPanel never gets inserted.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

James Roe — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:15:19 GMT

One final note, word wrapping does not occur if there is no link in the text.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

James Roe — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:27:24 GMT

There are a couple of bugs with this current implementation. First and foremost the regex breaks on url's with slashes after the initial slash.

ie:
http://videosift.com - works
http://videosift.com/ - doesn't work

you can fix this by replacing the default uri pattern on line 15 of LinkLabel.cs with the following code

public const string DefaultUriPattern = "(^|[ \t\r\n])((ftp|http|https|gopher|mailto|news|nntp|telnet|wais|file|prospero|aim|webcal):(([A-Za-z0-9$_.+!*(),;/?:@&~=-])|%[A-Fa-f0-9]{2}){2,}(#([a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*(),;/?:@&~=%-]*))?([A-Za-z0-9$_+!*();/?:~-]))";

also if you want to add an underline to your links the way it is currently adding spacing to the end of links will result in the underline extending past the edge of the text. This can be fixed by changing line 255 from:

Content = link.Text + " ",

to:

Content = link.Text,

and by adding

                this.layoutRoot.Children.Add(new TextBlock()
                {
                    Text = " ",
                    Style = this.TextStyle
                });

following this.layoutRoot.Children.Add( hyperlink ); on line 261

one final bug that I haven't resolved yet is managing punctuation that occurs directly after a link, for the time being in my apps I am just including the punctuation in the link tag, but I know some designers who would find that abhorable. Hope this helps someone.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

emil — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:17:20 GMT

Hi Fallon,

This is pretty easy actually. If you have already download the source code you can see there is an internal class named Link. There is a property TargetName which for now is just hard coded to "_self". If you make a good regular expression that can match [link="...." target=".."]...[/link] you can use the target value and set it to TargetName. This way you will be able to set in which window the link to be opened.

Same is for executing a method or event. You can define an Event in the Link class and then attach to it when adding the Links.

I can actually implement these features in the next version. If you have interest in that I would like to hear. Thank you.

RE: Silverlight LinkLabel control

Fallon — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:42:57 GMT

How hard would it be to account for the following.

Open Link in the current window
Execute C# method or event
Open Link in tab

Just wondering.

Thanks, Fallon...